Upload image to Cloudinary using PHP Codeigniter

Question

Can someone help me how to upload an image into Cloudninary using CodeIgniter? I don't know how to install the Cloudinary to CodeIgniter and use it because I'm new to PHP CodeIgniter. Please help me thank you.

Update! I was able to solve it. See the first answer. cheers

Answer 1

This code works for me

Cloudinary::config(array(
    "cloud_name" => "cloud_name",
    "api_key" => "*****",
    "api_secret" => "*****"
));

$image = UploadedFile::getInstanceByName('file');

$cloudinaryImage = Cloudinary\Uploader::upload($image->tempName);

$entity->setFile($cloudinaryImage->url);

Answer 2

1. First You need to download the cloudinary php script here https://github.com/cloudinary/cloudinary_php.
2. Now extract the downloaded file and copy the files from src folder.
3. Now in you codeigniter app, go to appplication folder and then third_party folder. Inside the third_party folder create a folder name cloudinary, and inside cloudinary folder paste the files from src folder that you extracted lately.

To use the cloudinary library:

4. Now inside your controller, in a function. You need to set up first the api credentials like this:

   require APPPATH .'third_party/cloudinary/Cloudinary.php';
   require APPPATH .'third_party/cloudinary/Uploader.php';
   require APPPATH .'third_party/cloudinary/Api.php';
   

   Cloudinary::config(array( "cloud_name" => "yourcloudname", "api_key" => "yourapikey", "api_secret" => "yoursecretkey" ));

5. Now to upload:

   $data['upload'] = \Cloudinary\Uploader::upload("image url you want to download");

6. And your done. for more information about the api you can then refer to the official documentation in http://cloudinary.com/documentation/php_integration.